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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Newsome, W. Jake (1987-....)
Titre(s) : Pink triangle legacies [Texte imprimé] : coming out in the shadow of the Holocaust / W. Jake Newsome
Publication : Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2022
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-286 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 227-273. Index
"This book chronicles the seventy-five-year struggle for the acknowledgment and memorialization
of the Nazis' LGBTQ victims. It simultaneously traces how LGBTQ people in Germany
and the United States transformed the pink triangle from a nazi concentration camp
badge into an international symbol of queer identity and activism beginning in the
1970s" ; "Pink Triangle Legacies traces the transformation of the pink triangle from
a Nazi concentration camp badge and emblem of discrimination into a widespread, recognizable
symbol of queer activism, pride, and community. W. Jake Newsome provides an overview
of the Nazis' targeted violence against LGBTQ+ people and details queer survivors'
fraught and ongoing fight for the acknowledgement, compensation, and memorialization
of LGBTQ+ victims. Within this context, a new generation of queer activists has used
the pink triangle--a reminder of Germany's fascist past--as the visual marker of gay
liberation, seeking to end queer people's status as second-class citizens by asserting
their right to express their identity openly. The reclamation of the pink triangle
occurred first in West Germany, but soon activists in the United States adopted this
chapter from German history as their own. As gay activists on opposite sides of the
Atlantic grafted pink triangle memories onto new contexts, they connected two national
communities and helped form the basis of a shared gay history, indeed a new gay identity,
that transcended national borders. Pink Triangle Legacies illustrates the dangerous
consequences of historical silencing and how the incorporation of hidden histories
into the mainstream understanding of the past can contribute to a more inclusive experience
of belonging in the present. There can be no justice without acknowledging and remembering
injustice. As Newsome demonstrates, if a marginalized community seeks a history that
liberates them from the confines of silence, they must often write it themselves."
-- Publisher's description
Sujet(s) : National-socialisme et homosexualité
Homosexuels -- Persécutions -- Allemagne -- 1900-1945 -- Influence
Mouvements de libération des homosexuels -- Allemagne -- 1945-....
Mouvements de libération des homosexuels -- États-Unis -- 1945-....
Indice(s) Dewey :
943.086 08664 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Allemagne - 1933-1945 - Étude en relation avec les homosexuels
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781501765155. - ISBN 1501765159 (rel.). - ISBN 9781501765490 (erroné). - ISBN
9781501765506 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb473028537
Notice n° :
FRBNF47302853
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: "Beaten to death, silenced to death" ; "They are Enemies of the State!"
: the fate of LGBTQ people in Nazi Germany ; "For homosexuals, the Third Reich hasn't
ended yet" : Paragraph 175 and the Nazi Past in West Germany ; "The only acceptable
gay liberation logo" : the reclamation of the pink triangle in West Germany ; "It's
a scar, but in your heart" : the pink triangle in American gay activism ; "Remembrances
of things once hidden" : piecing together the pink triangle past on stage and on page
; "We died there, too" : commemoration and the construction of a Transatlantic gay
identity ; Epilogue: "Remembering must also have consequences" ; Appendix A. Timeline
of key events ; Appendix B. Memorials to gay victims of the Nazi Regime ; Appendix
C. Memorials with pink triangle for LGBTQ victims of violence.
